Qualifier Loganathan continues fine run in junior nationals

Qualifier Yeshwanth Loganathan of Tamil Nadu continued his fine run to reach the last eight of the boys singles in the Adidas-MCC National junior clay court tennis championship here today.

Top seed Parikshit Somani also advanced to the quarter finals.

Yeswanth Loganathan beat his state-mate Deepak Senthil Kumar 0-6, 7-6(6), 6-4 while Somani outplayed Amit Beniwal of New Delhi 6-4, 6-2.

Third-seed Megh Bhargav Kumar Patel (Gujarat) beat Telangana's Nitin Gunduboina 6-3, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals.

Loganathan had upset the second-seed Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli of Telangana in the first round on Monday.

The talented Chennai lad Dhakshineswar Suresh, seeded five, beat Lohith Aksha Bathrinath (TN) 6-1, 6-2 to book a berth in the last eight but another home player Oges Theyjo J, the 11th-seed bowed out, losing to sixth-seed Yugal Bansal (Delhi).
 

In the girls section, six seeded players coasted to victories in the pre-quarterfinals.

Top-seed Akansha Bhan of Gujarat thrashed Mubashira Anjum Shaik of Telangana 6-0, 6-1.

Results - Boys singles (Third round): Arjun Channathimmiah Honnappa (Kar-S8) bt Dipin Wadhwa (Del-S9) 6-3, 6-2; Megh Bhargav Kumar Patel (Guj-S3) bt Nitin Gunduboina (TS) 6-3, 6-1; Dhakshineswar Suresh (TN) bt Lohith Aksha Bathrinath (TN) 6-1, 6-2; Yugal Bansal bt Oges Theyjo J (TN) 6-4, 6-1.

Abhimanyu Vannemreddy (Del-S4) bt Kaivalya Vamanrao Kalamse (Mah) 6-3, 6-4; Rhythm Malhotra (Del) bt Rohit Krishna Aynampudi (TS) 7-6(3), 6-3; Yeswanth Loganathan (TN) bt Deepak Senthil Kumar (TN) 0-6, 7-6(6), 6-4.

Girls singles (third round): Humera Shaik (TS-S7) bt S G Vasavi (TN) 7-5, 2-6, 6-2; Prinkle Singh (CH-S16) bt Vineetha Mummadi (TS) 6-1, 6-1; Chandrika Joshi (Kar) bt Dedeepya Sai Y (TS-S9) 6-1, 6-4; Shivani Manjanna (Kar-S11) bt Smriti Bhasin (TS) 6-1, 6-2: Shreya Tatavarthy (TS) bt Advaita Saravanan (TN) 6-2, 1-6, 6-0.